This is probably the most widespread format of RPG. A traditional RPG focuses primarily on character development on a story level and encompasses experience levels, turn-based or active-time combat systems, great quests, and a lot of thinking and puzzle-solving.

Famous Traditional RPGs:
Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Ultima, Might And Magic, Lunar, the list goes on for miles!

You take the role of Drek, a knight who wakes up in a dungeon without his memory. To further aggravate the situation, you are immediately assaulted by a high-tech trooper who blames you for the death of his unit. Although your surroundings are strange and you don't fully comprehend the stakes of what you are tied to, there is a vague familiarity of the situation that worries you. What terrors lie in the minds of men?

GearHead is a mecha roguelike roleplaying game. Set a century and a half after nuclear war, you can explore a world where various factions compete to determine the future of the human race. Major features include random plot generation, a detailed character system, and over two hundred customizable mecha designs.

As a young pirate will you decide to claim your birthright as rightful king of the mainland, or will you save the world from the oblivion stone? This is just one of the scenarios you will find in 'Unlikely Hero', a realm created with Dark Realms. More will be available as they are created :)

(Chloris's Call Entry.) It's been over a year since young Garrick has seen his friend Sarah. She left their sleepy little town to become a Templar, an elite knight of the church. Now her training is over, and she is coming back home to pick up their partnership once again. But her return will set into motion a series of events that will threaten their friendship, call up the ghosts of a bloody race war, and possibly even kill them.

Was an entry for DarkDread's minirpg compo, is now going to be something amazingly cool (eventually... heh). I should probably start writing this at some point. I have an engine that rocks and.. uh, stuff.

The Vernal Equinox Festivities find the city of Canterbury flooded with pilgrims from the Outlands. A chance encounter between the prostitute Isolde and the pilgrim Teague might be the only barrier to assassination...

Sophy is looking for her friends when she suddenly realize that they have been kidnapped by some slavehandlers. And that is not all, they enters a forbidden castle and nobody knows what is lurking there... in the dark... waiting... watching... holding its breath... ok thats quiet enough...

A castle is being taken over by an army of monsters. In this graphical fantasy MMORPG you can either fight and try to save the reign, or you can join the evil forces. Combats, Magic, Weapons, Spells. Has music and sound.
You play immediately with your browser, the download link will actually open the connect page.

Here begins the Rith Saga. Taking place in the year 1200 of Rith's history this epic RPG tells the tale of a boy named Cai Ambrioth. For years a dictator named Magnus Akra has terrorized the continent of Paravia in an attempt to overthrow the current ruling kingdom of Armoth and their guardian at Paravia's east coast, Fort Paran. One night on the first snowfall in many winters General Zerefin Ambrioth of Ft. Paran is informed by a messenger of an overwhelming sneak attack by what appears to be Magnus' forces. As Zerefin rushes to get to his son Cai a floor above him, Cai awakens to Akra's forces as they bust into his room and his adventure begins...

Isometric turn-based RPG. The world consists of huge underground caverns, with areas such as desolate wastelands, maze like tunnels and ancient ruins of structures. Explore these ancient ruins, learn their secrets, experience the ancient culture that once resided there. Figure out what it's all about while avoiding traps, grinding monsters to fine paste, interacting with absurd lifeforms and sneaking past aggressive beings.

LoZ EX is a MMORPG, Where you can Duel other players, buy a house, participate in Castle Sieges, Be in a Clan War and just about anything else you can imagine. You can choose to wield a sword and be a melee or learn new spells and be a mage! LoZ EX has a hard working staff constantly expanding the game with new Weapons, Armors, Helms and new areas to play! We also have events ranging from Trivia's to a the Voucher Event!

Created (and abandoned in 1997), Murmur's Dungeon is a unique hybrid of an FF clone and the original Zelda. Combat, items/stores, and a reasonable sized level to explore. Based on the engine created for The Legend of Tidal, a 1996 RPG forever lost to faulty computer hard drives.

Created (and abandoned) in 1997. Islandgates was an ambitious roleplaying adventure inspired by early Final Fantasy games for DOS. Walk around, effects, and combat that shows some animations. Click for shots and archival art.

INFO: Download from GitHub.com! -- A Ruby port of my first (and, sadly, only) walkaround demo which I wrote in Blitz Basic in Oct. 2001. Due lack of original source code I had to guess a lot of the engine's functionalities and, except for NPC animation files, it worked out very well -- more stable than in 2001 :)

Whispers in the Moss is an upcoming console-style RPG programmed in QB64. The game features very ambitious ASCII graphics, early 8 and 16 bit Final Fantasy style gameplay and turn-based battles. As of February 2013, the game engine is fully completed and I am currently creating content (maps, scripts, enemies, etc.) for the game.